The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons [and of the House of Lords] Containing an Account of the Interesting Speeches and Motions ... During the 1st Session of the 14th [-18th] Parliament of Great BritainJ. Almon, 1784 |
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... measure which no honeft Mi- nifter would take , and which , if any dishonest man pre- fumed to take , no Parliament would justify or bear . Such a measure could never be adopted in such a government as ours , ours , where public faith ...
... measure which no honeft Mi- nifter would take , and which , if any dishonest man pre- fumed to take , no Parliament would justify or bear . Such a measure could never be adopted in such a government as ours , ours , where public faith ...
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... measure to which he should call the attention of the House was not of choice , but of necessity : it was no idle speculation on his part ; the business forced itself upon him , and upon the nation ; and if he even would , he could not ...
... measure to which he should call the attention of the House was not of choice , but of necessity : it was no idle speculation on his part ; the business forced itself upon him , and upon the nation ; and if he even would , he could not ...
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... measures could poffibly be expected to effect a thorough reform . Strong , however , as the system was which he ... measure ! compared to the idea of leaving things in their present con- dition . He hoped , therefore , the House ...
... measures could poffibly be expected to effect a thorough reform . Strong , however , as the system was which he ... measure ! compared to the idea of leaving things in their present con- dition . He hoped , therefore , the House ...
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... measure he had proposed was a strong one . He knew , that the task he had that day set himself was ex- tremely ... measures , and for fome risque ; he knew , that a Mi- nifter who had no confideration but his own fafety , might be ...
... measure he had proposed was a strong one . He knew , that the task he had that day set himself was ex- tremely ... measures , and for fome risque ; he knew , that a Mi- nifter who had no confideration but his own fafety , might be ...
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... measure for the relief of the East - India Company , for the regulation of their affairs , and what was still more preffing , for fecuring to the natives of India , and all who refided there , and were dependent on the East - India ...
... measure for the relief of the East - India Company , for the regulation of their affairs , and what was still more preffing , for fecuring to the natives of India , and all who refided there , and were dependent on the East - India ...
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Page 603 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 392 - How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Page 377 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Page 392 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Page 265 - But this gentleman, a subject, may this day say this at least with truth, — that he secures the rice in his pot to every man in India. A poet of antiquity thought it one of the first distinctions to a prince whom he meant to celebrate, that through a long succession of generations he had been the progenitor of an able and virtuous citizen who by force of the arts of peace had corrected governments of oppression and suppressed wars of rapine. Indole proh quanta...
Page 225 - Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain, to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by...
Page 377 - And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! For in one hour is she made desolate.
Page 377 - And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
Page 265 - Fourth wished that he might live to see a fowl in the pot of every peasant in his kingdom. That sentiment of homely benevolence was worth all the splendid sayings that are recorded of kings. But he wished perhaps for more than could be obtained, and the goodness of the man exceeded the power of the king. But this gentleman, a subject, may this day say this at least, with truth, that he secures the rice in his pot to every man in India.
Page 266 - India, which will not bless the presiding care and manly beneficence of this house, and of him who proposes to you this great work.